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The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-08-06

shipping package, FOR long ship,
ments Of delicate produce, in our
experience, we heartily recon-
mend it for its good TO the ship
per, to our customers, and 20 us.
The fruit and package should
be perfectly dry and cool when
shipped; the shade temperature
of the place will do; never use
ice; ventilation is better than re-
ligcration. We are pioneers Of
ventilation, We have demon
strated that ventilation Of natural
air is more preserving TO delicate
fruits and berries than the artii-
cially low temperature of the con
fined and damp ai5 Of any exist
ing ice-box or refrigerator system.
Pick and pack the fruit as
above directed, in ventilated
packages, and ship via all rail fast
express only; and the extra eN
pensc acd smaller quantity will
more than be compensated for in
the better condition Of the fruit
ON arrival and its higher sale.
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WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE.

6 hat constitutes a Statelr
Not high-rsised battlem meRts or labored
mound.
Thick wall or moated ate;
Not cities proud with spires and turrets
crowned.
Not lays and broad armed ports,
Where laughing at the storm. rich navies
ride;
Not starred ana spaBgled courts,
Where low brow'd baseness watts I,crCame
to pride
No; men, hgh-mmded men,
With powers as fir above duh bru tes en-.
dued
In forest brake or den,
As beasts excel cold rocks and bramb!es
rude.
NJ en-, who their duties know.
But know rights aud knowing dare main.
tain,
Prevent the Ohg.ained biow.
And crush the tvraut while they read the
chain.
These constitute State
And sovereign law, that States collected
will,
Ger thrones and globes eiate.
Sits empress. crowniDg good, reprssing ILL.,
Smit bv her sacred frcwN
The iend Discussion like vapor snks,
Aud cen the ail-dazzing crown
Hides his faint ravs, and at her bidding
sinks.
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TO PICK, PACK AND SHIP FRUITS.

A Philadelphia firm has sent us
the following directions for pick
ing, packing and shipping peaches,
plums, pears and other Southern
fruits:
Hand pick the fruit when fully
developed; just when ready for
the ripcning process, but before
this process has sat in to mellow
it. This right time for picking
can be seen in the plumpness and
coloring of the skin.
Handlegently. Discard every
thing soft or even mcllow-eyery,
thing immature, bruised, spccked, /,
or in any way faulty. Very
choice delicate fruit should be
wrapped like oranges, TO COM
mand outside prices.
Hand pack carefully-close,
snug and tight; not to mash or
bruise the fruit, but to keep it in
| I lace so it cannot rattle about,
settle or shift place and get dis
arranged and chafed in shipment.
Do not use deep baskets, lasg
at top than at bottom. to wedge
or mash the fruit. Do not use
tight built boxes to spoil more OF
less fruit from stagnant air. Mos
of the common slat vegetable
crates are ruinous TO fruits anC
delicate produce.
Use open built ventilated pack
ages; those made by the 5. S
Mfg Co. Petersburg, Va, foi
berries, peaches, etc, are thu
most perfect packages for long
shipments that we know of. Th'
interior ventilated baskets, tina
contain the fruit, are shallow ant
separated; 50 nothing is crushe,
and everything is well aired there
| in. The outside package IS Sc
, constructed as to cover the space
between the tiers ofinner baskets
: preventing the fruit from spillin;
: and dust fIom entering. It j
very light, but has the prope
{ strength Of a scientific arrange
ment of upright and hoFlzonta
: separated Stats. on the ends AM
{ corners. as well as the sides. /
: Is as thoroughly ventilated a
G possible, by the wide spaces be
b tween the Stats, on both sides an
: ends. Being the most perfcc
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BUSINESS CARDS.
w. w. ROBERTSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
HcCo3TB CITY, MISS.

ttcRzERLY OF HAzLEHURsT, MIss,l
Has located 10 MeComb City for the practice
of his profession and tenders his services to
the people of that place aud surrounding
community
Office III d d Gibsons Drug Store. apr s.
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CORN CULTURE.
ENTERED FOR PRIZE ESSAY
CONTEST.

CONTEST.
! notice III the April number Of
your valuable magazine you offer
a premium for the most practical
and economical essay on the
Culture 0f Corn.
| will here give mine. from an
experience Of twenty years, during
which time ! have always had
"corn TO sell and corn to keep, hot
OF cold, wet or dry"
Lay of your rows four feet
apart, with six inch shovel as
deep as can be drawn with o good
single team; drill plentifully in
this furrow, your stable manure,
and when your stable manure
gives out drill your cotton seed il,
at the rate Of flom Thirty to fifty
bushels per acre; then bed up
deep and close with good, single
horse turning plows, which will
usually take six furrows. Take
a good pulverizing harrow and 90
over these beds once or twice,
which will bring them down
nearly level, putting the sell in
good tllth to receive the seed
making in all nine furrows in the
preparation. This work must be
done and corn planted by the
middle of March, for this latitude
South Mississippi. / nave
tried rows of various widths, from
three to six feet, and I find foul
feet suits best for both poor and
rich lands.
PLANTING.-There are some
machines that do the work tolcra
bly, well, but | much prefer to dc
it by taking a block opener
open three inches deep, drop on
grain every eight inches, cover
ing with a good roller or a blocl
made for the purpose. and a GOO
6 stand will always be the result
as have never had to repeat
row when the above direction
were followed.
CULTIVATION When the cor
Is making the fifth blade, and j
: very grassy, take a good cotto
= scraper, bar off, "shaviug close,
u wrapping the middes well; bu
!. if not very grassy, good sid
y harrow or cultivatol twice to tn
9 row will do the work better
! dragging down the beds to a leye
. leaving the surface in good shap
s. 10 receive the next working
: Now go over with the hoe. and
: the land is rich, take out ever
IS other stalk, which will leave I'll
stand from 16 to 20 inches in I'll
i drill; but right here ! will sa,
4 that every farmer should kno
st the strength of his land, then h
d better judgment will dictate ho
r thick to leave the corn, takir
N into consideration the amount
I'd fertilizers used. AS soon as tt
'f chopping is over with and Il
a hoeing has been finished the Co
N will begin to need h1lling. Tai
1T four-inch half shovel attached
re the Avery "combiuation" stoc
e. twist two burrows deep and clio
s. hilIing the corn up to the first
G. lower leaves, then in about Gig
n or ten days, apply in this b
ed furrow 200 lbs. cotton seed me
n per acre. by dashing or spreadil
n, opposite each stalk, and with 60
le turning plows cut two more fl
o. rows from middles, slightly Ia
IN ping again in the drill, and
6 about ten days more drill one-h
on bushel peas on one side of middle
# plowing out deep with small ploy
he laying by, by last of May or Fl
ed of June. This culiivatlonis 81
MS ficicnt, if done rapidly as abe
,e. directed, TO always insure a ci
re of corn, but if the land should !
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NO. 32.

the best showing ever made by
bureau. 1t is also said that there
is not case in the Pension Office
that has not been examined in
that time and the proper action
takon to prepare it for final set
tlcmcnt--a record that is exceeds
ingly gratifying TO the officials
of that bureau.
If a dynamite bomb had explod-
ed in the corridors of the Patent
Office the other day, there could
not have been much greater COM
motion among the army of Re-
publican clerks than when il was
made public, that, after n patient
investigation, the accounts Of Levi
Bacon, a protegc of Zack { hand
lei's, who died a few days since,
after having been many years
financial clerk Of the Patent
Onicc-dying IN the position
were short over $33, 900. Who
can blame these Republican clerks
for holding u culogistic meeting
over the dead defaulter, for they
knew he held their due bills for
thousand of dollars unlawfully
advanced to them out Of the pub
lie funds? Many of the clerks
will not have any salary in three
months, as Secretary Lamar will
deduct thercfrom their dues. The
bondsmen Will have to pay the full
amount for which they are re-
spouslble, $4,000, yet. 1t ls
thought there VIII be consider
able shortage after the clerks are
made to refund, as most Of tho
sum is in paper on l}acou's outside
friends II appears that his ac-
counts havc been crooked eight
years. The Democrats can afford
to raise n great deal Of such
unsavory. 'Bacon out of Office. =
"'rurn tho rascals OUT In the
words of the noble lamented
Hendricks. '.Open the books"
Nj. John J.. Norris, Of this city,
one Of Bacon's bondsmen, now ex.
presses his emphatic conviction,
to use the language Of the great
and honorcd Tilden, that "Reform
is necessary" and says he be-
lieyes that the accounts of Other
disbursing officers Of the Govern
mcnt, will, il fully investigated
he found in as bad condition at
those OF the esteemed Republican
,. Bacon.
A statement prepared by tht
! Treasury Department shows thai
in the month Of juno, there was
an increase Of ~, 2,664, $40, IN th'
circulation and decrease of So,
1862, ,93l Of the cash in theTreasury
The principal increase in circula
, ton was ia silver certificates am
= Uni-ed States notes and the prin
cipal decrease in the Treasur,
} cash was in gold and silver certifi
Gates United States notes ant
: national bank notes.
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
II.rom onr rognIar cone.rondenll

Washington, D. G. July "a, 1887.
Controller Of the Treasury
Trenholm, in the matrcr of the
suspension Of the Fidelity Nation
al Bank of Cincinnati, has acted
with a promptness aud vigor be-
coming the dignity and response
bility Of the Government, and
the catastrophe is not without its
lessons and uses, rs it shows the
unquestioncd superiority of our
National banking system over all
others in the world, for ours is
being rapidly recognized as the
model for most civilized nations.
When, for instance. this bank
suspended, what man in the
United States stopped for a
moment to examine whether or
not he had and Of its bills? re-
alizlng the fact that if all the
banks of the country were TO
break in a day, the Goyernmant
would be fully responsible as long
MS 4 United States bond is good
for its face value and must of
them are worth a great deal more.
There is quite ripple in the
great and good Civil Service
| Commission over u somewhat
embittered disagreement about
the question of paying the ex-
ponses Of the several local civil
service boards while on their re-
cent junketing visit to this city,
but ! hardly think the controversy
will be rs important rs the pro-
verbal tempest in the teapot How
sad to see that even this august
body is subject to the same in
6rmities Of temper as arc ordinary
people
The changes in the different
Departments incident to the
beginning Of the new fiscal yea
were not numerous or important
Twenty Treasury clerks wer,
: dismissed, also seven in th,
Quarter Master Generals Oilic,
and forty employed in the Gov
7 ernmcnt Printing Oilicc-most o
G the discharges being made on &c
: count Of the appropriation bill
failing to provide for a contInli
+, ance of 'he incumbents. Tn
i order consolidating revenue dis
n tncts went into effect at the sam
/, time and also the 20 per cen
= reduction in salaries Of Assistan
{. District Attorneys there were
n few minor clerical changes, j
G nearly all the Departments.
c Under the heueficent method
II Of our honest and upright Don
it ocratic Administration the reduC
G tion of the public debt continue
d steadily-the amount for tn
month Of June being about sl5
: 600. 900, which isa pretty goo
J. showing.
II Of 81 clerks in the Quartz
le Master Generals Office, wh
o were examined under the ne
II Civil Service rules, six men an
lt two women failed to attain Ii
ID minimum Of IS out of possib
ID 100. The following fact is r
G. gardea of much significance b
20 the Commission. Before I'll
rs examination, the Quarter Mast'
=, General had made markings fl
lg efficiency and kept them secrs
Is for comparison with those Of Il
er examiners and it turned out tn
G. both markings were substantial
al the same-a result highly sati
ID factory to the Commission, as
II tends to disprove The charge
as favoritism in the 10 lgs.
C. During the last fiscal year Il
Id Pension Office issned 11l.S4
ct certificates, which is said to
The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1887-08-06
Fashionable Barber Shop,

Magn Ola. Miss
HENRY K9RNRuMPF having r'moved
his business on tbs "West side at the ign of
z istanrant. will give stnct attention TO
shaving, hair eutting. hair-dressing and SHAWL
pooning, all of which will be executed ia abc
neatest aud Latest style. A trial will guarsa-
antee satisfaction.
Fruits, Candies, Cakes, Tobacco and Cigars
for sale. iuI /, Soft
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Land, writes J T.. Moultrie, of
Union Springs, Ala, cannot be
too sandy for turnips. IL the
land is dry they may be sown
level, but if the soil IS very rcten-
tive Of water, bed it up as if for
cotton and SOW on the beds,
leaving a good water furow.
Rutabagas and carly turnips may
be mixed and sown together.
Use out the early ones, and leave
the rutabagas for late winter and
spring. Seventy years ago,
everybody sowed wheat with
their turnlps as Il protection from
the fly, which preferred tlle small
grain. 1t also gave a nice calf
pasture when the turnips were
gone Southern Cultiyator.
The Supreme Court Of Penn
sylyania has decided that man
cannot assign his unearncd wages
IN any way In the case decided
the court sain "the attempt was to
assign that which had no exis-
tence, either substantial or in
cipient. There was no founda-
ton of contract on which an in
debtcdness might ARISE. 1t was
the mere possibility Of subse-
quent acquisition Of property.
This is too vague and uncertain.
1t cannot be sustained as a valid
assignment and transfer Of pro-
perty.- Southern Cultivator.
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PARAGRAPHS oN PouLTRY.

Give yout fowls a change Of
diet.
Give them plenty of fresh
water daily.
Little chicks should be fed
little at time and often.
Whltewash your fowl house in>
side and out, perches, nest boxes
and all. Add a little carbolic acid
to the wash.
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ARTICLE XVIII.
DECISION.
MAKE UP YOUR MIND UPON EVERY
SUBJECT

SUBJlN1-
/. Consider whatever is neces-
sary to do this. Examine all che
facts and circumstances bearing
upon the subject. Weigh them
with care. Try to know all
about it, that should be known to
reach a just conclusion. Look at
the subject from every point Of
view, do this patiently, carefully
and cheerfully. Let no predju-
dice interfere. Let no appetite
or passion interfere. Ask your
self the earnest questions, in the
examination of the subject upon
which you wish to deel le. Is it
wise? Is it just? Is it reason
able? Is it my duty? Be sure
that you understand what these
questions mean, then decide.
That decision is your choice, If
your choice is not wise, it is fool
ish. Be sure to make up your
mina-to decide, and be equally
sure that your decision is wise,
just and reasonable.
THE FOLLY OF NOT DRcIDING IS QUITE
COMMON.
2. Whether the subject is i'm
portant or otherwise, there are
diseased minds who reach no con-
clusion upon any subject, except
the conclusion which passion OF
circumstances force upon them.
They are intellectual vagrants-
wandering tramps-Arabs in theiI
nature. Their life is under tho
control of circumstances. The
inclination that is congenial tC
such persons, however foolist
and imprudent it may be, seizei
the helpless victim and compeli
him to obey. Not to decide i.
practically to decide, but it is tt
decide to fall into the arms Of
life's ever varying circumstances
and emotions. The love of ease
the love of pleasure, and the low
of novelty ensiave thousands
They have not sufficient energy
to decide upon a worthy course
Their minds are dead to nobl,
purposes. They are like beauti
fui trees whose heart is cankered
In summer it is too hot; in win
ter it is too cold, for them to work
They are valetudinarlans. T.
earnest work and generous i'm
pulses, they are strangers. Lik
cracked bells, their minds iangl
out of tune. They make horri
bic discord on the lyric of duty
A little reflection will show tina
this hesitation. this daIlying wit
duty, is not only a great waste 0
time, but must defeat a person !
the accomplishment of an object
Let no one suppose that thi
wretched habit can not be broke
up. Determine to make up you
mind upon every question, re
specting which, interest or dut
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Total cost. .s13 60

The above estimates are based
at the rate of fifty cents per day
for labor, ten cents per bushel for
cotton seed $22, 90 per ton for
cotton seed meal. The cost can
be made less for cultivating a full
crop, and at the rate Of $500 per
month for labor, just what we
pay here for the best hands.
In conclusion | will say, though
not boastingly, that last season by
the above plan l gathered $50
bushels and year before 824
bushels, on upland at that. The
corn and land was measured by
disinterested parties and certified
to before an officer. If more
practical and economical plan can
be gwen would like to see it.
[TAN in Miss. Valley Farmer.
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cHAs. II. oTKEN, A. NJ.
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come baked and you wish to do
anything more, take your cultiva-
tor and 60 once in the middles,
flat wedding with hoes, which will
greatly benefit both peas and corn.
Another good plan is. after you
have plowed out, SOW one bushel
peas broadcast per acre, running
two furrows with cultivator.
The peas will soon cover the
ground, choke out everything else
and he worth the work of one
hand TO the crop the following
year.
The point / wish noticed in the
above plan is its eheapness, viz:
Two furrows with cultivator, two
with half shovel, two with plow,
two to three with half shovels in
laying by, making from eight TO
nine burrows in all in the cultiva-
ton, and | have often done the
wotk with six burrows in less than
ninety days to make the crop,
After | have once broken the dirt
to my corn l never stay away from
it longer than fifteen days at q
time, and | much prefer working
it inside of every ten days.
will here give the total cost
of one acre of corn by the above
plan, which should yield on good
average land from 80 to n
bushels.
Cost ofpreparing one acre. 81 lC
Cost Of planting and seed. 80
Cost of cultivation. ..-.-., IL
Cost of chopping TO stand.- u
Cost of fertilizers 1.-TWO appli-
cation)- ----.--..-......7 q
Cost OF boarding hand. ......3 &C
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Transient ads, win he charged for at the rate Of
10 cents per line, first Insertion, aad cents each
additional insertion.
ca. All advertising Is due when inserted unless
otherwise specialiy agreed.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-22
AN EAsr INDIAN sxBARIrr.
Life OF the ktng Of 0udh Amid the
Surroundings 81 Eden.
- g,,,o 80 India


The death of the last King OF OIdh
deprives Calcutta Of picturesque and
almost legendary parsonage. To the
visitor the red and blue roof of his
palace, the gardens, stocked with Wild
beasts and brilliant birds, his inAumera-
bile guards and attendants. and the tens
of thousands OF pigeons that were al
WAYS wheeling above the grounds seem
ed 10 embody the fantastic life OF native
India. The men guarding the doors
were oil his own sepoys from Cawnpore,
and once you had an order to pene-
trate the charmed circle you passed
through beautiful succession of groves
and parterres aud miniature grass plots
and pleasant terraces. dis menagerie
fell away Of late, but some years back 1t
almost rivaled the famous collection IN
the London Zoo. In one large space
there were buffaloes. goats, and deer,
and ostriches and other great birds. A
tank something like $50 yards square
WAS covered with storks and pelicans
and swans aud had ample woll-wooded
rambling grounds around IL. The smaller
birds were sheltered in lofty ayiaries.
The lions and tigers and wolves and
other ferocious animals were, OF course,
Gagged, but Gagged very comfortably.
In another garden a building that
looked like magnIiied ant-hill was fixed
in the centre Of large square well. and
was carefully surrounded with water.
Here the snakes were segregated, aud
800 of them lived in the narrow holes
with which the strange building was artl-
ficially honeycombed. 1t used to boone
of the great sights Of the day to SEQ
them fed with frogs But his pigeons
formed the great feature Of the Kings
collection.
conc who knew him writes that he
led a kingly life to the end, though he
had not more than T 900 subjects 10 gov
ern =" He held court and received legal
honors. created titled mobiles according
to his caprice, and travelled over his
grounds in campAn. occupying at dill
ferent tim IS different country seats, like
other kings" At one time lac would
watch his animals and his fishes being
fod, at another his rams and cocks and
quails would be- brought up TO fight be-
fore him. He had, We are told, a pre-
vailing passion for order and cleanliness.
He prayed five times a day, though he
ate only one meal, but from morning till
night he chewod pan sopari and smoked
the bOOkah.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-22
Washington Notes.
Tpv falegraDh 10 the Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, December 2l.-Secre.
tary Fairchild issued an order to-day for
closing all custom-houses on the 26th
instant and the I'd proximO. He also
ordered the closing of the Treasury De-
partment at noon on the oath and 3lst
instant. A similar order has been issued
with regard to the navy-yards.
As result OF the adoption by the
House to-day of the new rule admitting
private bills without the iormality OF
presentation in open house. about so OF
these measures were thrown upon the
Clerks desk within short quarter OF an
hour. While many of them are original
bills, the majority appear to be old
stagers
Secretary Faircbild took official notice
to day of the report that 1000 Belgian
miners are to be imported TO take the
places of miners in the Lebigh region now
onastrike. He sentteleerlmst to collectors
OF customs ut New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, and Baltimore calling attention
TO the report and instructing them 10
be vigilant in preventing any violation Of
the alien contract labor law.
The collections of internal revenue for
the first five months OF the present fiscal
year amounted to S5l, 1850, 649, being al
Increase OF 1884, TAP as compared with
the collections for the corresponding
period last year. There was an increase
OF 81, 97g,66I on receipts from spirits,
81, 100,l7 on tobacco, s776, 4i2 on fer